Goverment Misbehaving 2

An example of contemptible government behavior.  They can be irresponsible and unethical in their magnanimous decrees but not anyone who violates them in the slightest degree.   https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/07/16/metastasis/   Here is another really contemptible action - stealing people's property. Quote: "The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to stop governments in Michigan from collecting overdue property taxes by confiscating the property, selling it and keeping the entire profit.  Lawyers for the plaintiffs, who want back the difference between their taxes owed and what the government got for their properties, warn that similar scenarios are arising in a handful of other states. WND reported in March an appeals court decided 2-1 based on jurisdictional issues that it could not order the return of the $190,000 profit Van Buren County made when it confiscated a church’s camp property for nonpayment of taxes. Two other plaintiffs, each of whom lost smaller parcels, are joining Wayside Church in being represented by Pacific Legal Foundation. The third judge on the panel pulled no punches, however, in condemning the government. “In some legal precincts that sort of behavior is called theft,” wrote Judge Raymond Kethledge in his dissent of the 2-1 6th Circuit Court of Appeals decision in favor of Van Buren County."    http://www.wnd.com/2017/07/supreme-help-sought-to-end-confiscation-nation/

Not a good thing. But it has been a slow but steady movement in this direction.  Quote: "A militarized police response to protesters poses a danger to all those involved, protesters and police alike. In fact, militarization makes police more likely to turn to violence to solve problems. You want to turn a peaceful protest into a riot? Bring in the militarized police with their guns and black uniforms and warzone tactics and “comply or die” mindset. Ratchet up the tension across the board. Take what should be a healthy exercise in constitutional principles (free speech, assembly and protest) and turn it into a lesson in authoritarianism."    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/07/12/tear-gas-guns-and-riot-squads-the-police-states-answer-to-free-speech-is-brute-force/     The root cause is the lawlessness condoned by the incessant progressivism movement and their influence in producing numerous intrusive/oppressive government policies over the past 100 plus years.

This may be a surprise to some people.  Obamacare was not the first federal government intrusion into our nations health care system. Quote: "The feds first got involved in the healthcare industry over 80 years ago with the Social Security Act, signed into law in the 1930s during FDR’s administration. This created both the Social Security system, as well as the Social Security Administration. Although this didn’t directly affect healthcare, SSA was followed by the 1965 Social Security Act Amendments, which created two federal medical programs, Medicaid (for low income families) and Medicare (for people age 65 and older). In the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Donald W. Miller, Jr. writes on the effects these programs had on the healthcare industry through its introduction of a third party payer that guaranteed artificially high prices."  And, "Today, Medicare faces unfunded liabilities approaching $48 trillion.  “If we return to double digit health care inflation, we could see Medicare’s liabilities swell to more than $88 trillion,” writes Cato Institute senior fellow Michael D. Tanner. And that’s just Medicare. According to a report by the National Center for Policy Analysis, there is more than $30.3 trillion owed in Social Security and Medicaid benefits. In addition to Medicaid and Medicare, under Social Security there is also Federal Old-Age (Retirement), Survivors (OASDI), and Disability Insurance, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, (TANF), State Children’s Health Insurance Program for low income citizens, (SCHIP) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Despite SSA and its amendments being signed into law by Democratic Party presidents, and despite Republican opposition to “Hillarycare” in the early 1990s, the GOP has also backed socialized medicine. In an article on the passage of Medicare Part D in 2003, Laurence Vance writes how it was “instituted by a Republican-controlled Congress with the full support of the Republican leadership and signed into law by a Republican president.”  And, "Moreover, as Vance points out in his discussion on Medicaid there is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes the federal government to run any such program in the first place. This applies to every other federal health program as well. Obamacare has become a favorite conservative tool to pillory Pres. Obama, and he certainly deserves it. But unconstitutional federal intervention into healthcare is in reality a bipartisan project that would likely continue under a Republican president. It is going to be up to the states to rein in this overwhelming federal overreach."    http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2016/01/26/national-healthcare-didnt-start-with-pres-obama/  

Quote: "This is a 100% unconstitutional mess our government has created and over time only made things worse.  As you ponder the unbelievable unfinanced trillions and trillions in liabilities, just remember this government debt does not even consider the nearly $20 trillion of the so call national debt that hits the news wires every six months to a year.  Politicians are great at spending money and terrible at protecting the nation's financial stability.  Something has to give and it will do so eventually.  The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to stop governments in Michigan from collecting overdue property taxes by confiscating the property, selling it and keeping the entire profit. Lawyers for the plaintiffs, who want back the difference between their taxes owed and what the government got for their properties, warn that similar scenarios are arising in a handful of other states. WND reported in March an appeals court decided 2-1 based on jurisdictional issues that it could not order the return of the $190,000 profit Van Buren County made when it confiscated a church’s camp property for nonpayment of taxes. Two other plaintiffs, each of whom lost smaller parcels, are joining Wayside Church in being represented by Pacific Legal Foundation. The third judge on the panel pulled no punches, however, in condemning the government. “In some legal precincts that sort of behavior is called theft,” wrote Judge Raymond Kethledge in his dissent of the 2-1 6th Circuit Court of Appeals decision in favor of Van Buren County."     http://www.wnd.com/2017/07/supreme-help-sought-to-end-confiscation-nation/

This is largely a waste of taxpayer money.  Funding well funded institutions with taxpayer money is foolish.   http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-use-arts-funding-subsidize-billion-dollar-nonprofits/?

This is a logical follow up to the previous item and sets the stage for items that follow.  Illinois and US protectorate Puerto Rico  are bankrupt.  Several other states are also in bad fiscal shape.  Politicians have long spent taxpayer money on things that get them reelected without regard for future fiscal implications.  Quote: "If Gov. Bruce Rauner and his legislature in Springfield do not put a budget together by Friday, the Land of Lincoln will be the first state in the Union to see its debt plunge into junk-bond status.  Illinois has $14.5 billion in overdue bills, $130 billion in unfunded pension obligations, and no budget. “We can’t manage our money,” says Rauner. “We’re like a banana republic.”  Speaking of banana republics, Puerto Rico, which owes $74 billion to creditors who hold its tax-exempt bonds, and $40 billion in unfunded pension liabilities, has already entered bankruptcy proceedings.  The island’s imaginative 38-year-old governor, Ricardo Rossello, however, has a solution. Call Uncle Sam. On June 11, Rossello held a plebiscite, with a 23 percent turnout, that voted 97 percent to make Puerto Rico our 51st state."    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/06/27/are-illinois-puerto-rico-our-future/     Fiscally irresponsible is a term that best defines most elected officials and government bureaucrats.

With senators this dumb making laws and pontificating fake intellect for the cameras no wonder the state of the nation is in such bad shape.   https://www.teaparty.org/dem-state-senator-helps-pass-bill-give-charity-1-5-million-charity-also-pays-6-figure-salary-249670/    Suffice to say that Al Franken is just one of many political nincompoops on both sides of the political aisle.

We all have long known that the IRS is not our friend.  Now we know for sure that they are really good at fraud, waste and abuse of our tax dollars, too.   Quote: "Barbara Rembiesa contributed an article for The Hill reporting that the International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers (IAITAM) found the IRS wasted $2.76 BILLION in federal IT waste. That’s about $31,000 per IRS employee. Just so we’re clear, the average American tax bill is $9,118."   https://libertywriters.com/2017/07/new-report-just-exposed-unbelievable-irs-fraud-trump-going-field-day/